The Brambilla's, The Beginning

Two days later he was taking a shower when she stepped in with him. Watching the water run down his body she couldn't get over how handsome he was. She thanked her lucky stars that he belonged to her.

"Glad you could join me," he said, putting his arms around her waist.

"It's my pleasure."

"Oh, it will be," he said, lowering his mouth onto hers. ******

While they were eating breakfast she asked him what he had planned for the day.

"Nothing at all, so I'm all yours. But I was thinking of going to check out how our house is coming along. Would you care to join me?"

"Do you have to ask? I've been cooped up in here for so long and if it wasn't for my painting and my piano lessons I would go mad. Do you think we'll be able to get inside?"

"We should be able to go through some of it."

Later they left in his car, followed by William and a couple of other men in the other vehicle.

As they approached the house they could see that it was coming along nicely. Parking the car they got out and walked over to the construction manager.

"Mr. Brambilla, how are you doing today?"

"So far so good. I'd like you to meet my fiance, Eleonora."

Once they were introduced to each other she looked around at all the men working and all the construction going on while Leone and the other man talked. He had told her it was going to be the biggest mansion around, but this was far more than she thought it would be.

"So is it safe for us to go inside and see what's been done so far?" Leone asked after discussing a few details.

"The main floor should be okay, but I wouldn't go upstairs as it's not secure yet." He led the way with the couple following behind him after he had given them both a hard hat to put on.

She was in awe as soon as they walked in the front door. The main entrance alone was huge with a beautiful staircase leading upstairs. They were shown around the main floor area. Leone pointed out which room would be his office, then she was shown into the den and two rooms. One he said would be the family room and the other one would be the living room for when they had company over. There was a huge dining room and the kitchen was humongous.

That was all they were allowed to look at but he told her that the home would also have a home gym, a movie room. He was even having a studio built so that she could do her painting.

"There's so much more that hasn't been completed yet, the upstairs is still under construction."

Leone was very impressed with the work that had been done so far. "So I know you have a long way to go yet but do you have a ballpark figure as to when it may be done?"

"I'm guessing another seven or eight months. But I promise you, sir, that when it is completed you will be satisfied."

After thanking the construction manager they got back into their car and he turned to her. "You've been very quiet. If you don't like anything that's being done just let me know and I'll have it changed."

"No, it's perfect and I love it."

"Why do I sense a butt coming?"

"It's just that I wasn't expecting it to be quite so huge."

"Once it's filled with furniture it won't look quite as big. Remember that one wing will be for us and our children until they are grown. When they are older they will each have their own wing of the house. There will also be rooms available for any guests who may come to visit. Trust me, it's going to be amazing and we are going to be very happy here."

"I know we will, and I can't wait until it's finished."

"Now that we're out and about let's take you shopping for some new clothes to wear on our honeymoon." He loved it when her face lit up at the word shopping. The woman sure loved her clothes and that was why he made sure that she would have a huge walk-in closet in their bedroom.

Poor guy, he was starting to regret suggesting to take her shopping. He sat in the chair, holding her purse as she tried on outfit after outfit. Of course she had to model each one for him. He liked everyone she tried on, but the woman would not make up her mind which ones she wanted. So he did what any good husband would do, he bought them all for her. Four hours later they left the boutique with so many bags that his bodyguards had to help carry them.

Before they reached home Eddie called and asked if he could meet him outside of a nightclub, he said it was important. So Leone told one of his bodyguards to take the bags back to his place and he headed towards the nightclub. He wanted her to go with the bodyguard but she talked him into letting her go.

When Eddie saw them pull up and she got out of the car he was not expecting her to be there.

"What's up, Eddie?"

"I thought you would be coming alone."

"We had just come from shopping and since you didn't say it was anything dangerous I agreed to let her come with me. So do you want to tell me what's going on?"

"I just got word that Harvey Stone is about to take some girls to the States. He has on him a piece of paper with the address as to where they are staying and the time it is going to go down. He's inside the club and is as drunk as a skunk. I was hoping we could go in there and get that paper out of his pocket without him knowing. He doesn't know either one of those so we should be able to get close enough to him."

"I've heard of the man's reputation and I doubt he'll let us near him. The only people that can get close enough to him is a woman," Leone said, thinking as he rubbed his chin. "You know a lot of women, call one and see if she'll help us out."

"Why would you need to call somebody when I'm right here?"

"There's no way in hell I'm letting you get involved with this," he said, looking at her.

"Wait a minute, Leone. Eleonora is just his type, she's gorgeous and blonde. We'll be sitting close by in case there's any trouble. All she would have to do is sit down and have a drink with him, get close enough so that she can slip her hand inside his jacket pocket and pull out the paper."

"How do you know he's got it in his pocket and not in his wallet or somewhere else?"

"Because I was in there already and been keeping an eye on him, someone handed him the paper, he glanced at it and stuck it in his left jacket pocket."

"I don't know."

"Leone, let's go inside and sit down and you'll see for yourself how drunk he is. He's too wasted to try anything with her."

She grabbed his arm. "Leone, I'm sure I can do it. All I have to do is flirt with him a little and when he's not looking grab the paper and then leave."

"I don't want you flirting with any God damn man."

"Honey, think of those young women that he is selling for sex. If it's true what Eddie says about how they're getting ready to move the girls soon then you don't have time to follow him around. You need to get all your men together and stop him."

He looked back at her, his forehead was creased with lines from worrying. "Okay, but if you feel you can't handle it then come over to where I'll be sitting watching you."

They went inside and the three of them sat down at a table not too far from Harvey. Even though the man was still drunk it didn't stop him from flirting with every female that walked by or the waitress who kept bringing him drinks.

"Okay sweetheart, are you ready for this?" Eddie asked, knowing that his friend was not happy about her doing it.

"Yes, but I think to really catch his attention I need to make a couple of changes."

"Like what?" Leone snapped, not liking where this was going.

"Give me your belt."

"What for?"

"Just do it," she said as she stood up and undid some buttons on her dress. Taking the belt she hiked her dress up high and wrap the belt around her waist, covering it with the material from her dress.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Leone asked when he saw how short she made her dress, showing off a great deal of her legs and not to mention showing way too much cleavage.

"It appears that the man likes women who are showing off a lot of skin, so in order to get his attention I must do the same. Now don't worry, I'll be very careful."

"I'll kill him if he touches you."

She leaned over and gave him a soft kiss on the lips. "I won't let him."

Walking from the table she went over to where Harvey was sitting and pretended to bump into his table, spilling his drink. "Oh I'm so sorry, please forgive me for spilling your drink."

The first thing he noticed was her long slender legs, his eyes moved up to her cleavage. "That's okay, doll. I can order another one and I would like to buy one for you too, so please sit down."

She sat down next to him. "I would love a rum and coke."

He waved the waitress over and ordered the two drinks for them. "What's your name beautiful?"

"Susie, and what's your name?"

"You can call me Harvey," he said, putting his arm around her shoulder. "What is a beautiful woman like you doing here all by yourself?"

"I broke up with my boyfriend last week and I'm lonely. I needed some male companionship, if you know what I mean?"

"Oh, I know what you mean, and I'll be happy to take away your loneliness," he said as his eyes stayed glued to her breasts.

They talked for a while, and he kept flirting with her. When he placed his hand on her leg she grabbed it and held it.

"I would do almost anything for another drink."

"You already have half a glass now."

"I'll have it finished in just a few minutes, and after the next one maybe we could go somewhere more private," she said, batting her eyelashes at him.

When he turned his head and waved the waitress over she saw the piece of paper sticking out of his pocket and quickly grabbed it. "Harvey, while you're waiting for the waitress I'm just going to slip into the lady's room and freshen up."

He placed his hand on her cheek, his words slurring more now than they were before. "Don't take long sweetie, my cock is aching for you now."

Giving him a smile and feeling like she wanted to throw up she walked away, but instead of going to the lady's room, she headed to the door, knowing that Leone and Eddie would follow her.

Moments earlier: When Leone saw the man put his arm around her and tried to touch her leg he went to get up but Eddie stopped him.

"She's doing good, just give her a little while yet and see what happens."

"If he touches her again I'll kill him." He wanted so badly to pull out his gun and shoot the bastard in the head. He was still angry that she was doing this, and he never took his eyes off of them for one second. ***************************

When she got outside she turned around and saw them coming towards her. With a smile on her face she held up the piece of paper. "I did it, I got the paper."

"You did good sweetheart," Eddie said, smiling at her.

But Leone didn't say anything, what he did do was go over to her and removed his belt from her waist so that her dress would fall down to where it should be, he then did up the buttons on her dress.

"Are you angry?" she asked him, knowing damn well he was by the look on his face.

His eyes were dark with fury when he looked at her. "You will never do anything like this again. Do I make myself clear?"

This was the first time he had ever yelled at her like this, and she didn't like it. "Don't use that tone with me. I did what I had to so that you and Eddie and the others could save those girls from being forced into the sex trade. Instead of snapping at me, you should be thanking me."

"Why should I thank you when you put yourself in danger and then you showed off your body to a freaking drunk?" He stepped back from her and ran his fingers through his hair. "Did you enjoy acting like a slut and letting that man touch you."

Her eyes grew wide with shock, then anger quickly set in and she raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face. "You jerk." She then turned from him and walked towards their car and got in.

Eddie went over and placed his hand on Leone's shoulder. "You never should have talked to her like that and my friend, you are going to be in the dog house for a while."

He knew himself that calling her that was way over the line and it would take some hard work to get her to forgive him. "I know I shouldn't have said it, I was just so damn angry. Anything could have gone wrong in the blink of an eye. I was just worried about her I would never have forgiven myself for letting her do this if anything had happened to her."

"She's a smart woman, and except for him putting his arm around her shoulder she did not let him touch her leg like he tried to do."

"I'm still going to kill him when I get the chance. No one is ever going to touch her like that and get away with it."

Eddie looked at the slip of paper. "It's going down tonight around three. So take her home and make up with her. I'll get a bunch of guys together and we'll take down that prick. I'll pick you up at two."

Taking a deep breath he headed towards the car and got in. When he looked at her she turned her head in the opposite direction and refused to talk to him all the way home."